Series: Death's Substitute

The smell of surgical spirit and cheap lavender floor wax was the first thing that hit my senses, sharp and artificial enough to make my [more…]

The universe snapped back together with the brutal, sickening violence of a bone re-breaking. Sensory input flooded my brain all at once—not the damp, rotting [more…]

The regression was a violent, suffocating descent through liquid ice. Reality cracked and dissolved into blinding static before slamming together with the force of an [more…]

The regression was not a smooth backward drift through time, but an agonizing, violent tearing of my immortal soul. Reality fractured into jagged crimson shards [more…]

The temporal jump was not a smooth descent, but a blinding, violent annihilation of every atom in my spirit. The brass gears of Julian’s pocket [more…]